Joylynn Hardesty

Hmmmm....

Well, it seems that I mislabeled my plants. Mine looks nothing like their pics. Oops. Good thing hibiscus is still edible... Because it has been going in our tummies for a while. I did plant it though, cause there was a row of them!

Transplanting like sod makes sense to me, but I have not tried it.

The best seeding results I have had, was solarizing an area for several weeks in late summer. Just as the fall thunderstorms were due to arrive, I pulled up the tarp and seeded. Clover got a good start, overwintered and  come spring, exploded in growth. Here, spring planted clover is too tender to stand up to soggy ground and my abuse.

I do suspect that you have very different weather patterns there.

EDIT: Apparently, I mislabeled my seedlings!

I bought orach from experimental farm network. This is my second year of growing it. I left some bare ground where I let themself seed. But oddly, I have no seedlings this year. What I DO have is what appears to be growth from last year's roots. First pics from April 11. Second set, today. Anyone else have what appears to be perennial orach? Maybe it a short lived one?

David Milano wrote:I use a shovel for transport, coming at them from behind, which the turtles tolerate pretty well, although one did take offense and bit the shovel handle. Spun around quick as a gunshot!

You're a brave one! Last turtle I had to move, I kept my hands within two feet of the end of the handle, shoveled him sideways into a big trash can and drug that near the pond to tip it over for him. I thought he was pissed BEFORE I got him into the can. 55 gallon can and he was jumping half way up the side!

Matt Todd wrote:Congrats! Now watch out. Nobody warned me sufficiently that this stuff can SPREAD. Or so it has here in Missouri. More than I ever thought possible. I have to thin it out in some of my plantings.

Oooh! One can only hope! Because, medicine!!! Do you find that it self seeds? Does it also create more plants by root division?

EDIT: Reread Judiths question, apparently root division does work.

These are from seed. One of the reasons I kept trying is its' use for snakebites. You can read about that in this thread. And there is a YouTube by Doc Jones that includes it in this thread. And this thread by Judson.

We have a pond, wild spots, and cottonmouth and copperhead are seen several times each year. We also have a rattlesnake native to our region, but apparently it hides better. Living in the south, we've all been bitten by brown recluse spiders, but we've treated that in the past with plantation and comfrey salve. Watched for growing black areas, but they never developed. Just saw a horrible pic of a bad infection today. Holy crap.

I have tried multiple times to grow Echinacea. Here is my very first bloom!!! Yes. Second year plant. With more flower buds and 3 additional plants working on their courage to flower. Woo hoo!

How has this worked out? I love dragonfies too. They are here, but much fewer now that our place has become more of a forest than a meadow.  Mosquitoes still abound.

Thanks Yeardly! From a fellow "redbud farmer"

Yeardly Arthur wrote:Redbuds are left alone around the borders, but their branches make great tomato cages, and you don't even need twine to tie them - just strip the bark.

Nope, you're not getting away with that one. I require pictures!